Talk:2014 Latakia offensive

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Mihrac Ural source

He is hardly dead in Aleppo, as the (biased Turkish) source says, and hardly dead at all, this image was posted by the group an hour ago:[1] FunkMonk (talk) 15:15, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hi! a opposition member (rebel fighter) admitted that hundreds of their own have been killed on friday 21th march alone, on that day 50 government forces died. could you add that in the casualty figures as opposition claimed? thank you.

And a rebel who identified himself only as Samer said the pounding was ferocious, but that there are "thousands of fighters ready to strike back against the army."

The officer said thousands of rebels had participated in a Friday assault on Kasab, in fighting that had killed 50 soldiers and left hundreds of rebels dead.

also, observatory 45 has been retaken by the syrian government — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.86.30.85 (talk) 23:34, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

there is now also direct jordanian military support: http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/airbridge-transporting-jihadis-jordan-turkey please add them to the list

Nabain and observatory

State tv claims are not reliable, additionally Syrian army is bombing both. Sopher99 (talk) 13:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You obviously don't read the sources properly. The claims are not state tv claims. Its reported by the Al-Monitor, which is considered a reliable news source, unless you think it has become part of the Assad propaganda machine, which you would need to provide proof for. As for the bombing, again you don't read the sources properly, it says they are bombing AROUND the Observatory, no the hill itself. Stick to what the sources say and don't make things up every time that you don't like what the source says and call it a state tv claim. Sorry for being so blunt about this but you forced my hand. Thank you! EkoGraf (talk) 14:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Now THIS is a proper source [2]. So please be more careful in the future. EkoGraf (talk) 15:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Shooting down of Syrian fighter plane

The article says it was brought down by anti-aircraft fire but the source says Erdogan announced that "Our F-16s took off and hit this plane". So, which was it? Anti-aircraft fire implies ground-based weapons. But it being brought down during air-to-air combat would be a very different matter regarding strategy, timeframe, and chains of command. You don't just launch plane on spec and have it fly around on the off chance an enemy might appear - it implies these Turkish planes were already in the air, waiting to support and defend rebel groups from Syrian airforce attacks. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 02:21, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone ahead and changed the wording to say F16 'planes. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 21:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why does opposition causality claim has to placed over government claim?

Shouldn't each party respectively lead in its own causality claims? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.230.122 (talk) 18:30, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]